Sending a rover into space to explore other celestial bodies comes with a dizzying array of challenges, and one of the most ...

A middle school STEM club in Seabrook launched four high-altitude weather balloons with student-built equipment. The balloons, intended to stay aloft for two days, were brought down by bad weather ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, U.S. President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, to be Thanksgiving Day. It was the first U.S. holiday by presidential proclamation. In 1922, ...

"When the Stratomast is flying, all these old satellites are going to be in museums." A new generation of stratospheric balloons and high-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) could soon connect ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These measurements reveal details about the chaotic, superheated material swirling ...

An object that struck the windshield of a United Airlines-operated Boeing 737 Max 8 cruising over Utah on 16 October has been identified by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as a high ...

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This image was posted on X by Scott Manley and shows a WindBorne weather balloon payload (left) and the United Airlines 737’s cracked windshield. Manley wrote: “...looks like - they used sand as ...

For the past three years, the U.S. Army has been experimenting with the use of high-altitude balloons and solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft to understand how to “operationalize the stratosphere,” but ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. There has been a fresh wave of balloon sightings across several ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado is no stranger to strange objects floating or flying across the sky (remember “Balloon Boy” from October 2009?), and many residents wanted answers for a strange balloon seen ...